Moving inside São Paulo by public transport I think is not the enjoyable option if the destination is not far. Having to move in “Salut Paula” by foot has given to my body, due to the direct contact, the opportunity of truly experience the warm atmosphere and the fluidity of the city. It is wonderfully fluid having to move by foot inside “Salut Paula“and the atmosphere offered new physical feeling. Especially in the morning and in the afternoon. At that period of the day, the air is fresh and in combination with the sweet daylight, we have the sensations of swimming in a sea hitting by a burning sun. No monstrous traffic jams… By foot, It is also very easy to discover and enjoy some special corners of relaxation that is not always possible to see or even feel when I tried out public transport. By regularly doing the going and the coming back from FAAP Artistic Residency to the FAAP Campus, I am really getting progressively the high point of what “Salut Paula” has as potentiality of enjoyment. Due to the traffic jam, it takes about 40 minutes with public transports. So, it takes less time (about 30 minutes) to reach the campus by foot and at the same time with lots of advantages. The general mood here and the pacific relationship with the people around are making me getting a new natural instinctive state of mind. I also think that the permanent sunny time and the smooth air is playing a key role in this process of getting a new brightening frame of thinking.

The week from 9 march till 15 has been marked by my presentation at FAAP Campus and my birthday. I had to exchange about my work with the visual arts student in FAAP. It was a fruitful moment of dialogue.

My birthday party on 11 march, took place on the top floor of the Lutetia Building. I received a wonderful birthday gift from the Videobrasil team. The idea of organizing a party came from the cute friend Cornelia Enderlein, a German visual artist, actually in residency at FAAP. And she has played the organizers and the modest party was cool. It has been a great moment of communion with the FAAP Family at the Lutetia building. Thanks a lot to the beautiful videobrasil team for the pleasant words, to Conny and the other colleagues from the Lutetia Building. You made the party possible and has given a sense of happy satisfaction. Meanwhile, I have been busy on editing new videos. Please, you are all very welcome to our OPEN STUDIOS in FAAP Residency on 18 April.

The social fracture between the communities is very visible in this rich environment where I am operating. And in my immediate surround, we have the omnipresence of almost just one kind of skin. We can see it at the Campus itself and in my building where It looks like I am the only person with the golden skin. I do not know how is the situation in other area of the city or even in the all countries. So, this is for now the only situation that makes me feel a bit not happy. When I go to openings, I am generally the only person directly from or original (inherent) from the golden Continent. I started to really think that there is something unfair around here. The American Indians who, I think are the legitimate holders of the American continent in general, even almost does not exist in this very rich environment. I do not really see them around as teachers or even as students and if we can have some of them, the percentage is going to be around 0,1 percent. This is also true for the people original(inherent) from the golden Continent. For now the very first justification I received is that the disparity is linked to the fact that the unseen communities did not received the higher education that can give access to all the social positions and after slavery, the slaves were abandoned without an educational and economical plan which could offer access in the new society. It is really a pity because, if a very good education was offered to everyone about 150 years ago, the Brazilian social context would be really wonderful today. However, according to what I have been hearing around, it looks like the measures has been taken and we hope to observe little considerable changes during the next 20 years. And please, I modestly think that, the variety of the tonality of human skin must be a source of beauty, harmony, poetry, richness, love, hope, attachment, adoration between the diferences, not source of distance and wickedness because we are just one person: the human kind and just love, affection, goodwill, friendship, sympathy and mutual respect can break this situation. We should really learn how to truly love each other. It is the best way to conceive and build a better global project, which will offer a truly beautiful Earth where everyone will really feel very happy everywhere.

Under the recommendation of the gentle Camila Schmidt Veiga and Thereza Farkas, I went to the São Paulo art fair 2015, to some openings and have visited galleries such as: Zipper, Pilar, Vermelho and Luisa Strina. The icing on the cake has been the meeting of my best model, Mister Alfredo Jaar on 7 April, he came in “Salut Paula“for his first solo show Gold in the Morning at the Luisa Strina Gallery. The simplicity and the higher level of the Works show the maturity of the artists. Then, I got the chance to really talk and exchange with Alfredo Jaar. It has been a great moment of dialogue.